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- From: Michel Grabisch <grabisch@thomson-lcr.fr>
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy
- Subject: new book
- Date: 16 Dec 1994 17:27:20 GMT
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- Dear Fuzzy Netters,
-
- I am pleased to inform you on the publication of a new book by Kluwer
- Acad., on uncertainty modeling by fuzzy sets and fuzzy measures.
- (may be it will be of some help in the probability vs. fuzzy debate!)
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- ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW BOOK
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- FUNDAMENTALS OF UNCERTAINTY CALCULI
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- with APPLICATIONS to FUZZY INFERENCE
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- Michel GRABISCH, Hung T. NGUYEN, Elbert A. WALKER
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- KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
- Theory and Decision Library
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- Series B: Mathematical and Statistical Methods
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- TDLB 30, 1995, ISBN 0-7923-3175-3
- 346 pages
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- This decade has witnessed increasing interest in fuzzy
- technology both from academia and industry. It is often said that
- fuzzy theory is easy and simple so that engineers can progress quickly
- to real applications. However, the lack of knowledge of design
- methodologies and the theoretical results of fuzzy theory have often
- caused problems for design engineers. The aim of this book is to
- provide a rigorous background for uncertainty calculi, with an emphasis
- on fuzziness.
- "Fundamentals of Uncertainty Calculi with Applications to
- Fuzzy Inference" is primarily about the type of knowledge expressed in
- a natural language, that is, in linguistic terms. The approach to
- modeling such knowledge is based upon the mathematical theory of
- uncertainty related to fuzzy measures and integrals and their
- applications.
- The book consists of two parts: Chapter 2-6 comprise the
- theory, and applications are offered in chapter 7-10. In the theory
- section the exposition is mathematical in nature and gives a complete
- background on uncertainty measures and integrals, especially in a
- fuzzy setting. Applications concern recent ones of fuzzy measures and
- integrals to problems such as pattern recognition, decision making and
- subjective multicriteria evaluations.
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- CONTENTS
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- Preface
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- 1. Introduction
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- 2. Modeling Uncertainty
- 2.1 Randomness and the calculus of probabilities
- 2.2 Uncertainty in quantum mechanics
- 2.3 Entropy and information
- 2.4 Degrees of belief
- 2.5 Imprecision, vagueness, and fuzziness
- 2.6 Non-additive set functions in uncertainty
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- 3. Capacities and the Choquet Functional
- 3.1 Capacities in R^d
- 3.2 Abstract capacities
- 3.3 Topological concepts
- 3.4 Capacities on topological spaces
- 3.5 Classification of capacities
- 3.6 Capacities and belief functions
- 3.6.1 the finite case
- 3.6.2 the continuous case
- 3.7 The Choquet functional
- 3.7.1 an approximation problem
- 3.7.2 the Choquet functional
- 3.7.3 properties of the Choquet integral
- 3.8 Capacities in Bayesian statistics
- 3.9 A decision making problem
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- 4. Information Measures
- 4.1 Various aspects of information
- 4.2 Generalized information measures
- 4.3 Operations of composition
- 4.4 Information measures of type Inf
- 4.5 Connection with capacities
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- 5. Calculus of Fuzzy Concepts
- 5.1 Mathematical modeling of fuzzy concepts
- 5.2 Calculus of fuzzy quantities
- 5.3 Reasoning with fuzzy concepts
- 5.3.1 t-norms
- 5.3.2 t-conorms
- 5.3.3 negations
- 5.3.4 implication operators
- 5.3.5 approximate reasoning
- 5.4 Robustness of fuzzy logic
- 5.5 Approximation capability of fuzzy systems
- 5.6 Fuzzy inference
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- 6. Fuzzy measures and integrals
- 6.1 What are fuzzy measures, and why?
- 6.2 Fuzzy measures - definitions and examples
- 6.3 Related issues
- 6.4 Conditional fuzzy measures
- 6.5 Choquet integral - meaning and motivation
- 6.6 The Sugeno integral
- 6.7 The Choquet integral as a fuzzy integral
- 6.7.1 notes on comonotonic additivity
- 6.7.2 comonotonic additivity of functionals
- 6.8 Further topics
- 6.8.1 the fuzzy t-conorm integral
- 6.8.2 some properties of fuzzy integrals
- 6.8.3 the duality property of fuzzy integrals
- 6.8.4 on fuzzy measures of fuzzy events
- 6.8.5 properties of extended fuzzy measures
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- 7. Decision Making
- 7.1 General framework for decision making
- 7.2 Non-additive expected utility theory
- 7.3 Non-additive multiattribute utility theory
- 7.4 Aggregation in multicriteria decision making
- 7.4.1 equivalence relations between operators
- 7.4.2 equivalence classes of operators
- 7.4.3 equivalence class of the Choquet integral
- 7.4.4 equivalence class of the Sugeno integral
- 7.4.5 equivalence class of fuzzy t-conorm integrals
- 7.5 Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
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- 8. Subjective Multicriteria Evaluation
- 8.1 Statement of the problem
- 8.1.1 marginal evaluation
- 8.1.2 global evaluation
- 8.2 Previous approaches
- 8.3 Fuzzy integral as a new aggregation tool
- 8.3.1 properties for aggregation
- 8.3.2 characterization of fuzzy integrals
- 8.3.3 set relations between fuzzy integrals
- and other connectives
- 8.3.4 additivity of fuzzy measures and
- preferential independence
- 8.4 Evaluation with fuzzy values
- 8.5 Practical examples
- 8.5.1 evaluation of tiles
- 8.5.2 model of expression grade for face graphs
- 8.5.3 prediction of wood strength
- 8.5.4 analysis of public attitude towards the
- use of nuclear energy
- 8.5.5 evaluation of printed color images
- 8.5.6 design of speakers
- 8.5.7 human reliability analysis
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- 9. Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
- 9.1 The use of fuzzy set theory
- 9.2 Information fusion by fuzzy integrals
- 9.2.1 consensus in probability theory
- 9.2.2 consensus in possibility theory
- 9.2.3 the situation of fuzzy integrals
- 9.3 Application to pattern recognition
- 9.3.1 introduction
- 9.3.2 the approach of Tahani-Keller
- 9.3.3 the approach of Grabisch-Sugeno
- 9.3.4 the multiclassifier approach
- 9.4 Image processing and computer vision
- 9.4.1 image segmentation
- 9.4.2 high level vision
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- 10. Identification and Interpretation of Fuzzy Measures
- 10.1 Interpretation by analysis of the semantics
- 10.1.1 introduction
- 10.1.2 early attempts: the necessity
- coefficients of Ishii and Sugeno
- 10.1.3 interpretation based on the Shapley value
- 10.1.4 interaction between criteria
- 10.2 Identification using learning samples
- 10.2.1 introduction
- 10.2.2 monotonicity relations in a fuzzy measure
- 10.2.3 minimization of the error criterion
- 10.2.4 heuristic algorithm of Mori and Murofushi
- 10.2.5 Bayesian-like learning
- 10.3 Interactive optimization
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- Bibiliography
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- Index
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